[RCook]

Have suddenly found Excel keeps bringing up the web toolbar whwnever I open my page. Addmittedly probably because I use the page for storing hyperlink shortcuts. How can I kill it? Keeps coming back even when I deselect on the tollbar view.

Running Excel 2003 SP3.

[snafder]

Are you saving the spreadsheet after 'deselecting' it from the toolbars?

It might be remembering it from the particular spreadsheet.

I use 2007 - so can't experiment for you...just a possibility.

[RCook]

Yes of course. I tried to fix it by emptying it and shoving it in a space at the bottom of the page. Now comes up as an empty bar on a line all by itself. Making it worse.

[snafder]

See here http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...993911033.aspx for Microsoft article on how to 'customise how Excel starts'
In particular - the bit about 'Save workbook settings you want to use every time you start Excel with a workbook template (book.xlt)'.

There is also another Microsoft article here ... http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...548151033.aspx
for 'customising Excel defaults with templates.

Another thing to try is to possibly open your spreadsheet - make the toolbar changes, then save the document as another name...its a long shot but might work.

I had an issue with a client yesterday where Word wasn't keeping settings...it turned out the Normal.dot was corrupt...in this case - the client wasn't concerned about recovering any previously 'saved' settings so I deleted the normal.dot and the temp version of the normal.dot in the same folder (found by doing a Windows search and searching hidden files/folders). Word now seems to be keeping settings...

I figured Excel has the same type of thing (hence the MS articles above) - if anything in those articles fails you - try finding the xlt's mentioned and possibly even the .xlb's and renaming them...this may restore original default settings and allow saving of new ones.
If you do - be sure to locate the temp versions (by searching the hidden files folders option in Windows search).

Hope this helps...

[slurpee55]

Close Excel.
Search in your profile for *.xlb.
Delete the file.
Restart Excel.

This will revert Excel's menus and Toolbars back to default.